Buddhika Gunathilaka
Senior Software Engineer at EvidenceHunt
Purmerend, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBuddhika Gunathilaka is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building scalable web applications and leading engineering teams across Europe and South Asia. He has deep expertise in PHP, Symfony, Laravel, Node.js and Google Cloud, and has driven enterprise-grade products at OrangeHRM used by millions while mentoring teams of 10+. Currently based in Purmerend, he blends practical architecture work with day-to-day coding, recently moving into senior roles at HarlemNext and EvidenceHunt. Buddhika’s background includes full lifecycle product delivery—from RESTful APIs and object-oriented design to cloud deployments—and a history of shipping both legacy integrations and modern microservice patterns. Notably, his early academic projects combined natural language tooling and mobile UX (Sinhala WordNet and an Android pop-up dictionary), showing a long-standing interest in user-focused language tooling. Colleagues know him for translating complex requirements into maintainable systems and for thriving at the intersection of engineering leadership and hands-on implementation.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc(Hons), Computer science Engineering, BSc(Hons), Computer science Engineering at University of MoratuwaOL and A/L Maths, Grade 6 to Grade 13, OL and A/L Maths, Grade 6 to Grade 13 at Ibbagamuwa Central Collage
English, Sinhala
Github Skills (21)
orangehrm8
leave-management8
resource-management8
restful-api7
php7
laravel6
mysql6
open-source5
angular4
ajv3
angularjs3
json3
architecture3
json-schema3
dynamic-forms2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mpgallage/Sinhala-WordNet-CSS
Jun 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:94 commits in 5 months
orangehrm/apidoc
Mar 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
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